Sunday, October 9, 2011

Send The White House a message to stop the Wolf Hunts Now!

Congress recently delisted the wolves from the protection of the
Endangered Species Act in the Spring of this year. This has opened up
the states of Montana and Idaho to once again hold wolf hunts this Fall
with the goal of drastically reducing the wolf populations in those
states to a level that cannot be considered genetically sound. These
actions have also been contested by a group of biology and ecology
trained scientists who have also stated the same concerns.

Please take a moment to sign the Federal Petition to stop the wolf hunts
pending the 9th District Court of Appeals decision. Thank you.

Due to a 2011 budget rider (Sec. 1713), gray wolves lost federal
protection under the ESA. It orders the Interior Secretary to reissue
the final delisting rule published in 2009. Articles written by
scientists in independent peer-reviewed journals criticized the 2009
rule for complying more with political expediency instead of best
available science. This is regarded as a particularly egregious affront
to the voice of the majority and to fair representation in our country.
The rider circumvents the District Court’s ruling in Defenders of
Wildlife, 729 F.Supp.2d 1207, and was designed to direct the outcome of a
pending case without amending the underlying statute involved. We join
the Union of Concerned Scientists in denouncing this action.Created: Sep 27, 2011

The film offers an abbreviated history of the relationship between wolves and people—told from the wolf’s perspective—from a time when they coexisted to an era in which people began to fear and exterminate the wolves.

The return of wolves to the northern Rocky Mountains has been called one of America’s greatest conservation stories. But wolves are facing new attacks by members of Congress who are gunning to remove Endangered Species Act protections before the species has recovered.

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Inescapably, the realization was being borne in upon my preconditioned mind that the centuries-old and universally accepted human concept of wolf character was a palpable lie... From this hour onward, I would go open-minded into the lupine world and learn to see and know the wolves, not for what they were supposed to be, but for what they actually were.

-Farley Mowat, Never Cry Wolf

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“If you look into the eyes of a wild wolf, there is something there more powerful than many humans can accept.” – Suzanne Stone